Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.

Charlotte Fairchild was excellent as the loyal Marie, who became the second Mrs. LaGuardia, singing and acting with remarkable conviction.

Fiorello LaGuardia became mayor of New York City in 1931.

New York LaGuardia had the most airline operations and passengers until the early 1950s, when Chicago became the busiest airport in the United States by any criterion.

Now, under an agency devoted singularly to its function and with the leadership of new director Morris S. Novik, appointed by Mayor LaGuardia, WNYC became a model public broadcaster.

Even where co-op programs are strong they can be threatened, as at Cincinnati Technical College when it became a comprehensive community college or LaGuardia during a budget crisis.

He became interested in composition while a student at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, in New York City, and taught himself composition, counterpoint and orchestration.

He later became a political ally and then a friend of New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.

The ' LaGuardia of St. John's ' would be defeated by his Deputy Mayor, Harry Mews, in the 1949 election.

LaGuardia was, in turn, followed by Major General Lowell Ward Rooks ( 1 January 1947 to 30 September 1948 ).

Early in September, while still in New York, he met with U. S. Army Air Forces Commanding General Henry H. Arnold on a runway at LaGuardia Airport.

* 1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, killing 11 people and injuring 74.

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947 ) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.

LaGuardia, a Republican who appealed across party lines, was very popular in New York during the 1930s.

LaGuardia was born in Greenwich Village in New York City to two Italian immigrant parents.

In 1919, LaGuardia was chosen to run as the Republican candidate for the office of President of the New York City Board of Aldermen.

LaGuardia governed in an uneasy alliance with New York's Jews and liberal WASPs, together with Italian and German ethnics.

LaGuardia was the city's first Italian-American mayor, but was not a typical Italian New Yorker.

LaGuardia then went after the gangsters with a vengeance, stating in a radio address to the people of New York in his high-pitched, squeaky voice, " Let's drive the bums out of town.

1939 was a busy year, as he opened the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, opened New York Municipal Airport No. 2 in Queens ( later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia Field ), and had the city buy out the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, thus completing the public takeover of the subway system.

Responding to popular disdain for the sometimes corrupt City Council, LaGuardia successfully proposed a reformed 1938 City Charter that created a powerful new New York City Board of Estimate, similar to a corporate board of directors.

" In 1937, speaking before the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress, LaGuardia called for the creation of a special pavilion at the upcoming New York World's Fair, " a chamber of horrors " for " that brown-shirted fanatic ".

As he had made no provision for her, she lived in very reduced circumstances, in a LaGuardia public housing project in Queens, New York, until her death in 1962.

LaGuardia remained Mayor of New York, shuttling back and forth with three days in Washington and four in the city in an effort to do justice to two herculean jobs.

* LaGuardia Airport, the smallest of New York's three major currently operating airports, bears his name ; the airport was voted the " greatest airport in the world " by the worldwide aviation community in 1960.

During the supernatural chaos towards the end of the film, LaGuardia is said to have come back to talk to the current mayor of New York in his bedroom for an hour and a half, despite LaGuardia's being " dead for forty years ".

Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York ( 1989 ) the most detailed standard scholarly biography

* 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York.

* 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.

On Thursday night, the New York area airports ( JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark ) were closed again and reopened the next morning.

He was succeeded by Fiorello La Guardia ( 1 April to 31 December 1946 ), former mayor of New York-who later learned that that his sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, and other relatives had been imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.

Aniston attended the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and graduated from Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

Pacino attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in New York.

* LaGuardia Airport ( Queens, New York )

Both Kennedy and LaGuardia airports are owned by the City of New York and leased to the Port Authority for operating purposes.

She attended New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and Chadwick School.

LaGuardia came to office in January 1934 with five main goals:

In a Sunday radio address on January 24, Mayor LaGuardia suggested that bakeries that had their own bread-slicing machines should be allowed to continue to use them, and on January 26, 1943, a letter appeared in the New York Times from a distraught housewife:

LaGuardia Community College was founded on January 22, 1968 by a resolution of the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, a New York State agency which was the precursor to the Board of Trustees of CUNY.

On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 from LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte / Douglas International Airport ditched into the Hudson River after experiencing a loss of both turbines.

The idea of the tennis center came about in January, 1977, when W. E. " Slew " Hester ( the then-incoming president of the USTA ) saw the underused Singer Bowl / Louis Armstrong Stadium on a flight into New York's LaGuardia Airport.